The "Black Tie" Awards presentation will be held at a Suffolk County Estate in October, 2014. Awards include cash, scholarships, workshop vouchers, screenwriting software, computers, screenplay memorabilia, screenwriting tutorial books, industry subscriptions, staged readings, and use of production facilities. The screenplays of the top five winners will be submitted to production companies seeking film scripts.

Judges will be selected from alumni and former award winners of the Long Island Film Festival as well as established academics.

Questions may be submitted to Long Island Film Festival www.longislandfilmfestival.org.

All submissions must be copyrighted with the Library of Congress, or the WGA.